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Great fun. Highly underrated film.
I don't know why a lot of critics hate this film ? Crickey........ 8-}
As I said in another thread, saw this in the cinema, and the animation (by the late, great Richard Williams!) was superb and Bob Hoskins was marvellous in the lead,.....but I hated Roger Rabbit himself, really annoying character!! He almost ruined my enjoyment of the film!
Not a great film, but the main story about the villainous DuPont organization is interesting and important.
Dealier than the male - Richard Johnnson as Bulldog Drummond in his first post EON adventure, Johnnson was Terrence Young first choice for James Bond and there is curiosly a similarity between Sean and Richard, weren't it for the fact that when Sean 007 walkes you see the predetor in 007. Johnnson has a lesser on screen charm but his Bulldog Drummond and the female assassins do deliver a decent spy-ish movie that is grimmer than one would expect from the spy-movies who were made to profit from the EON succes story. Not quite the Bulldog Drummond that was a source for Ian Fleming when creating his own spy but decent enough as an update to the sixties.
Completely worthless and idiotic movie.
It is a terribly disappointing film, indeed, @Fire_and_Ice_Returns. My biggest issue with it is that Murphy is barely in the movie. He's almost always there, but rarely as an active character. Snipes is the only truly positive thing I take away from the film.
It was nice of a dull and disappointing legacy sequel that nobody really asked for to make a joke about dull and disappointing legacy sequels that nobody asked for; I admired the self-awareness of that. However, I would have much rathered a good film!
As much as I love the original film, I couldn't for the life of me imagine them doing another one, especially 30 something years later. That juice dried up ages ago. I can count a half dozen or so chuckles, but that was it. And let's just call it out: the film is too long. Far too long. If they had condensed things to 85 minutes, I might have been more inclined to review the film more favourably. Its worst sin, in my opinion, is boredom.
100% agreed. It dragged considerably. It felt far longer than the first film did (and I off the top of my head, I think it's actually shorter than it).
They focused a lot on his son and the scenes just were not funny, the biggest issue with the film was definately the lack of good jokes.
Just rewatched this one a couple of days back, as well. Perfection, every time.
Decent enough, well structured. Nothing too special.
The Music, the model work, the acting the symbolism to mention just a few aspects, its an incredible movie.
I know Covenant was a bit of a dud, its a shame that arc wont get completed if only to tie things up. I wonder what Disney will do with the Alien series if anything?
Have they definitely decided to not proceed with a follow-up to Covenant?
Not sure to be honest its been a while since anything has been mentioned, I hope Ridley does one last film, its probably unlikely.
Edited: Found this article from September 2020, interesting...
https://www.cinemablend.com/news/2554293/aliens-ridley-scott-seemingly-changes-tune-on-future-sequels-connection-with-prometheus
Edited: Apparently there is a Alien TV show in the works...
https://movieweb.com/alien-tv-show-covenant-sequel/
Very interesting. Prometheus and Covenant were both great.
I think they both look exceptionally well. The image and sound quality on both are absolutely stunning. I'm also fond of the casting decisions they made for both films. Prometheus left me a tad cold story-wise though. Not a lot is going on and the expedition into the Engineers' ship takes up too much time and is dull overall.
I know this isn't the popular opinion, but I actually love Covenant as a simple but pretty dark and exciting horror film that stays much closer to the basic thrills of Alien than the other movies. I rank it third in my Alien list. Since my last marathon, my ranking (which can change yet again as time goes by) is something like this:
Alien and Aliens are far above the other films. My third favourite based on the fact I watch it often is Prometheus, there is a lot of good in that film its visually stunning. The muddled script and very odd character decision making undermines it.
Thank you for these, @Fire_and_Ice_Returns :)
With all that's been going on I have not paid attention to the Alien franchise future, it was news to me :)
The Man Who Wouldn't Die: I rewatched this delightful mystery film starring Roger Moore —great as always— and Malcolm McDowell —the consummate ham, and so very very entertaining— respectively playing novelist Thomas Grace and insane criminal Bernard Drake, pitted against each other as Drake chooses to follow one of Grace's detective novels in real life, with dangerous consequences. Nancy Allen costars and is very good. The B&W sequences are lovely, as is the music score by David Shire; sinister in a playful and theatrical way. You might enjoy this, @Resurrection!
Michael Caine has been in a lot of films.
It might be a record number ?
The upcoming Alien comic looks particularly good.
Indeed. I have even played Aliens vs. Predator (2010) in anticipation of the new comics. 😉
No it's not "Alien", "Aliens" or "Predator" but only recently I saw AvP and thoroughly enjoyed it; I particularly liked the female lead.
The same concept with a stronger director could have been awesome.
It's far better than the sequel, too. At least some creativity went into the set design, action scenes, and FX - even if the film (to me, at least) suffers from being a bit tame.
I haven t seen any of the previous adaptations, but this was pretty good even if it didn t follow the original story. This was more family friendly.